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By Benjamin Wachs

And who am I to argue? It’s freakin’ GOVERNING MAGAZINE! They know governing!

It's my Bible.

This estimation comes in a fascinating profile of Brown and his mentor, former California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. “The interesting question, decades after the fact,” it notes, “is this: As these two politicians accumulated power, did they remember what it was they had promised to use it for? Or did they turn cynical and merely begin using it for its own sake?

Short answer: Unruh never forgot the little people. Willie Brown forgot there were little people. But we knew that. It’s kind of a silly question, really.

For the long answer, the article’s well worth a read.